Carnegie Mellon University Tells 800 Applicants They're In, Then Out

Ben Leibowitz called up relatives to tell them he got into Carnegie Mellon University's graduate computer science program. He even went out to dinner with his parents to celebrate.

About 800 other Carnegie Mellon applicants experienced similar swings of ecstasy and agony Monday - first rejoicing that the prestigious Pittsburgh institution had selected them for its master of science in computer science, then being told the acceptances were sent in error and that they had been r...